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Hi, love your posts! Do you have any ampersands (&)?

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I'm glad you love my posts and thank you! 𐦍༘

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April 21, 2025: An Improvement in Stairs, Mairead Small Staid

An Improvement in Stairs Mairead Small Staid

Through the oculus of the bus terminal at Boston’s South Station, light falls for a hundred feet. A shock, a god, a pillar of light, like that of the Pantheon

if the Pantheon had a McDonald’s, a Dunkin’ Donuts, surly young workers at the Greyhound desk, & an escalator rising to its height—

just like it, that light. A patent for an early escalator called it an improvement in stairs. An improvement, surely, how I’m standing still & still, somehow,

going up & up & up. My favorite patents are the ones Houdini sought for tricks never performed: a block of ice he would leave whole, a box within a water-filled box

he would escape from dry. (I should mention: at least one thing in this poem is a lie.) I can disappear, too: from one place, from another. There’s nothing quite as nice

as leaving, when you’re in the mood. There’s nothing quite as nice as coming back. Years ago, I stood beneath the Pantheon & thought how beautiful, how sublime,

how like the bus terminal at South Station, if it had a Dunkin’ Donuts. During the war, Houdini offered to teach soldiers headed to the front

how to escape torpedoed vessels, German handcuffs. As a kid in Appleton, Wisconsin, he’d dreamed of playing baseball—

the stage of the stadium, the long fly making its escape. The way there is a place in the game called home

& the goal is to get there again & again.

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Also by Mairead Small Staid (hi! <3):  + In Defense of a Long Engagement + Demeter, Midwinter

More poems about Boston and baseball.

Today in:  2024: April Morning, Jonathan Wells 2023: What I Did Wrong, Marie Howe 2022: This Morning, Jay Wright 2021: Kiss of the Sun, Mary Ruefle 2020: Teaching English from an Old Composition Book, Gary Soto 2019: Easter, Jill Alexander Essbaum 2018: Annunciation, Marie Howe 2017: The Promise, Marie Howe 2016: In the Woods, Kathryn Simmonds 2015: Heat, Jane Hirshfield 2014: What Remains, Ellery Akers 2013: 30th Birthday, Alice Notley 2012: Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith 2011: The Forties, Franz Wright 2010: Prayer of the Backhanded, Jericho Brown 2009: A Primer, Bob Hicok 2008: Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry, Howard Nemerov 2007: Open Letter to the Muse, Kristy Bowen 2006: A Sad Child, Margaret Atwood 2005: The Crunch, Charles Bukowski

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Ampersand Love (2025)

For this piece I created an ampersand out of ampersands! I used a total of 603 ampersands and 483 different fonts!

For this project I created a fun animation featuring a spiraling color shift, it was incredibly hard for me to make. Only because I had used After Effects once, so making something like this was hard for me, but I'm so happy with how it turned out, I think it really brings the piece to life.

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ok so, you’ve had the question “tally hall fan?????”multiple times, however, are you a will wood or lemon demon fan?

exposing myself as an autistic little freak......... very deep into the will wood hyperfix. it's been like 3 or 4 years.

and I don't mind a spot of neil cisgender :)

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Blossveldt Ampersands by Anna Mills

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最初の日は / At the First Day - Mei Ehara, Ampersands (2020)

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